Author: Staff Reporter

Criminals are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their efforts to defraud customers, MTN South Africa warned on Monday.

The South African Banking Risk Information Centre warned on Friday that local banks are under sustained distributed denial-of-service attacks, targeting “various public-facing services”.

The City of Johannesburg said on Friday that it has detected a “network breach”, which resulted in unauthorised access to its information systems.

Altron lifted headline earnings per share by 4% in the six months to 31 August 2019 on the back of an 8% increase in revenue from continuing operations to R8.5-billion.

JSE-listed vehicle telematics company Cartrack has delivered a strong set of financial results for the six months ended 31 August 2019, reaching a million subscribers for the first time.

Amazon Web Services said on Wednesday that Old Mutual has struck a wide-ranging deal with the South African financial services group to shift a large portion of its IT workload to the cloud.

Eskom on Wednesday began a series of scheduled rolling blackouts, the first in seven months, as a shortage of supply meant there wasn’t enough electricity being produced to meet demand.

Eskom said on Wednesday that it will implement stage-2 load shedding from 9am on Wednesday, with outages likely to continue until 11pm.

A major fire broke out at MultiChoice’s head office in Randburg on Tuesday afternoon, though the situation was reportedly quickly brought under control. The building was evacuated.

INX-ZA’s Johannesburg Internet Exchange is getting a major upgrade to its backbone after Dark Fibre Africa donated high-speed fibre between the Isando and Parklands Internet exchange points.